rematch
A repeated contest staged between the same opponents or teams which played a previous contest.
Noun
- A repeated contest staged between the same opponents or teams which played a previous contest.
- After being beaten in pool by Melanie, John asked for a rematch.
Coordinate Terms: grudge match
- A reunion of a former couple into a new relationship.
- The general requisites for remarriage are simply an evaluation of past failures and good, sincere intentions for the rematch. - 1977, Stanley A. Ellisen, “The Marriage Relation: Where Angels Fear to Tread”, in Divorce...
- It was Affleck who canceled their 2003 wedding four days before the event, citing the attendant media circus, but when they canceled the rematch, a planned wedding at his Georgia estate, it was by mutual consent. -...
- The au pair agencies will tell you that only about one in ten matches ends in a rematch. - 2009, Nancy Felix, “The Art of the Rematch – When Things Go Wrong”, in Oh My, Au Pair! A Complete Guide to Hiring and Hosting an...
Origin
Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re-bor. Middle English re- English re- English match English rematch From re- + match.
Forms
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Verb
- To bring opponents together for such a contest.
- To stage such a contest.
- To match again or anew.
- We had to rematch the mixed-up parts.